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About the author Josh Axelrod

Josh Axelrod is the Politics Editor of Mediafile. He is a graduate student in GW’s media and strategic communications program. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 2014 with bachelor’s degree in journalism. He has worked in many newsrooms, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NBC Washington, USA Today and the Washington Examiner. He is is excited to be leading MediaFile’s Politics team going forward!

It’s not every day a local newspaper’s reporting results in the national shaming and subsequent resignation of a congressman. But that is exactly what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette accomplished last week after publishing a story revealing that now-former Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., an outspoken anti-abortion advocate,

Despite multiple record-setting hurricanes making landfall, Nazis feeling emboldened enough to march across a major college campus and a seemingly never-ending health care debate, House Speaker Paul Ryan insisted last week that the United States’ main priority needs to be tax reform. Ryan made his